Government of Anjouan (Anjouan Gaming Board) (Anjouan)
Jurisdiction
The Anjouan eGaming licence is issued by the Government of Anjouan, an autonomous island in the Union of the Comoros, through the Anjouan Gaming Board and its Offshore Financial Authority. Day-to-day licensing is administered by Anjouan Licensing Services Inc. (ALSI). It covers online casino, sports betting, poker, bingo, lottery and crypto games, and grants both B2C operator and B2B supplier licences. The board keeps a public register and a per-domain seal validator. Complaints go first to the operator, then to a mandatory alternative dispute resolution provider, with communications required in English.
Advertising rules
Anjouan imposes no jurisdiction-specific advertising or affiliate code, so marketing rules default to the player's home country and the operator's own terms. Licensees must age-gate, must not promote gambling to under-18s, and must run AML and identity checks as a condition of the licence. For readers this is a low-assurance offshore permit: useful as a baseline that an operator is licensed somewhere, but not a substitute for the protections of a national regulator in your own market.
2026 rule changes
- — A new B2B regime took effect: critical suppliers must hold an Anjouan B2B licence or an approved B2B Licence Recognition Certificate (ALSI-{YYYYMM}{seq}-REC{n} format), with non-compliance after 30 September 2025 grounds for suspension. [source]
- — anjouangaming.org now issues a 301 redirect to anjouangaming.com, which is the canonical official site; several lookalike clone domains exist, so only anjouangaming.com and the verification.anjouangamingboard.org seal validator should be trusted. [source]
National self-exclusion register
GAMSTOP (UK self-exclusion) — https://www.gamstop.co.uk/
Responsible gambling resources
18+. Gambling can be addictive — play responsibly. Free, confidential help: GamCare or call 0808 8020 133.
How an Anjouan licence works
Anjouan has licensed offshore gambling since the Computer Gaming Licensing Act of 2005, but the modern online regime dates to a 2023 reorganisation that handed administration to Anjouan Licensing Services Inc. under the island's Offshore Financial Authority. It is a fast-issuance, low-cost licence, which is why it became popular with newer crypto-first casinos after the Curaçao transition slowed approvals there. Unlike Curaçao's OGL numbers, Anjouan does not publish a uniform B2C operator licence-number format. The board's own model is domain-based: each licensed site carries a seal that resolves to a per-domain certificate, and the public register is searched by company name or operational domain rather than by a single code.
What an Anjouan licence means for players
Be clear-eyed here. An Anjouan licence is one of the lightest-touch permits in the market. Player protection rests largely on the operator: complaints start with the casino and escalate to an approved dispute-resolution provider, all in English, and there is no central self-exclusion scheme. The Comoros has also been flagged in international financial-crime reviews, and the island's authority to issue offshore licences has been questioned at the national level. We classify Anjouan at the bottom of our Offshore-Verified tier. We will still review and rate an Anjouan-licensed casino on its merits, but the licence itself earns a low score on the licensing component of our methodology. The operators we have reviewed under it appear at the foot of this page.
How to verify an Anjouan licence (our method)
We confirmed in June 2026 that the official register at anjouangaming.com resolves to a working lookup that accepts a licence number, company name or domain. To check an operator:
Use the casino's exact domain, not its brand name, as your search key.
Open the public register at anjouangaming.com and run the domain through the verify tool.
Click the on-site seal. A genuine Anjouan seal validates the specific domain through the board's validator; a seal that does not resolve to your casino's domain is a red flag.
Confirm you are on anjouangaming.com. The older anjouangaming.org address now redirects there, and several near-identical clone domains exist purely to host fake seals.
We run this domain-first check on every Anjouan review, because a licence that verifies for one brand is routinely copied onto unlicensed mirror sites.
Frequently asked questions
Is an Anjouan casino safe? It is licensed, which is better than nothing, but the protection is thin. We would only suggest an Anjouan-licensed site to a player who verifies the seal, keeps balances small and understands that recourse is limited. Why do some sites cite anjouangaming.org? That is the old domain. It now redirects to anjouangaming.com, which is the address to trust for verification. Is there a self-exclusion register? No central one. Self-exclusion is set per operator, so it does not carry across casinos. Use your own country's national register where one exists. What does the licence number look like? B2B recognition certificates follow an ALSI-202508001-REC1 style. There is no confirmed uniform B2C operator-number format, which is why the board verifies by domain rather than by code.